I think everyone should experience a drug induced mania/paranoia episode at least once in their life. Gives you a lot more empathy for people going through something whether it’s drugs and/or mental illness.
I absolutely agree. As a therapist with personal experience, I think it would be cool af and an overall good idea if university degree courses for becoming a therapist included an elective- but highly encouraged- course which focuses on simulating different symptoms
As a slightly masochistic psychonaut it’s crazy how I see someone with almost any mental illness/symptom and I don’t even question it, like I get it. I’ve been there. And I’m really glad I could come back, people are stuck there. It’s crazy that therapists and psychologists are spending years trying to understand something that can simply be experienced in a day. Even decades of study won’t give you the level of understanding that a single experience would.
At an agency meeting once, we played “never have I ever” and one of them was “nhie gone a week without showering;” I was the only one who had, and I got some seriously judgmental looks
I think everyone should experience a drug induced mania/paranoia episode at least once in their life. Gives you a lot more empathy for people going through something whether it’s drugs and/or mental illness.
Yeah but not before we cut everyone’s legs off so they can better empathise with people who use wheelchairs
I absolutely agree. As a therapist with personal experience, I think it would be cool af and an overall good idea if university degree courses for becoming a therapist included an elective- but highly encouraged- course which focuses on simulating different symptoms
As a slightly masochistic psychonaut it’s crazy how I see someone with almost any mental illness/symptom and I don’t even question it, like I get it. I’ve been there. And I’m really glad I could come back, people are stuck there. It’s crazy that therapists and psychologists are spending years trying to understand something that can simply be experienced in a day. Even decades of study won’t give you the level of understanding that a single experience would.
At an agency meeting once, we played “never have I ever” and one of them was “nhie gone a week without showering;” I was the only one who had, and I got some seriously judgmental looks
Lmao, as someone struggling with mental health, that’s nothing, but I get it being frowned upon
But yes, I don’t judge people on stuff like this. After all, what’s the point?
And there was an exchange someone I saw that went like “I can’t imagine someone’s mental health being so bad they don’t shower for a week!”
And the response was just “girl, some people’s mental health is so bad they kill themselves”
Yeah I’m pretty sure I’ve gone 2 weeks 😅 It’s not like I was showing up to work or school at the time so 💁 let me wallow lol
Haha, I love that one- I have it saved: